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Covenants Without Swords : Group Identity, Norms, and Communication in Social Dilemmas

Bicchieri, Cristina - 2002

In one-shot social dilemma experiments, cooperation rates dramatically increase if subjects are allowed to communicate before making a choice. There are two possible explanations for this "communication effect". One is that communication enhances group identity, the other is that communication...

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Is Social Capital Really Capital

Robison, Lindon J.; Schmid, A. Allan; Siles, Marcelo - 2002

Social capital defined as sympathy has capital-like properties including transformaton capacity, durability, flexibility, opportunities for decay (maintenance), reliability, ability to create other capital forms and investment (disinvestment) opportunities

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Can Happiness Economics Help Explain Voluntary Open Source Activities? Some Exploratory Cross-Country Empirics

Engelbrecht, Hans-Jürgen - 2007

major hypothesis explored is that trust, i.e. a form of social capital, is a less important motivational factor. I find some …

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Norms in a Partly Compliant Society

Kranz, Sebastian - 2008

This paper considers a model of incomplete information with selfish rational types and types who comply with social or moral norms by intrinsic motivation. We explore 'complier optimal norms', which maximize expected average utility of all compliant types given that the norms are commonly known....

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Environmental Morale and Motivation

Frey, Bruno S.; Stutzer, Alois - 2014

This chapter discusses the role of environmental morale and environmental motivation in individual behavior from the point of view of economics and psychology. It deals with the fundamental public good problem, and presents empirical (laboratory and field) evidence on how the cooperation problem...

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A Trace of Anger is Enough : On the Enforcement of Social Norms

Steiner, Jakub - 2005

It is well documented that the possibility of punishing free-riders increases contributions in one-shot public good games. I demonstrate theoretically that minimal punishment commitments (perhaps provided by anger) may lead to high contribution levels. Thus, almost selfish players may behave as...

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Moral Hazard and Moral Motivation : Corporate Social Responsibility as Labor Market Screening

Nyborg, Karine; Brekke, Kjell Arne - 2005

Morally motivated individuals behave more cooperatively than predicted by standard theory. Hence, if a firm can attract workers who are strongly motivated by ethical concerns, moral hazard problems like shirking can be reduced. We show that employers may be able to use the firm's corporate...

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Incentives and Prosocial Behavior

Bénabou, Roland; Tirole, Jean - 2010

We build a theory of prosocial behavior that combines heterogeneity in individual altruism and greed with concerns for social reputation or self-respect. The presence of rewards or punishments creates doubt as to the true motive for which good deeds are performed, and this "overjustification...

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The Economics of Human Relationships

Sacco, Pier Luigi; Vanin, Paolo; Bordoni, Bruna - 2004

Behind my reciprocation of a friend's gift may lie both instrumental reasons (I expect further future gifts) and 'communicative' reasons (I want to establish or confirm a friendship per se). In a theory of rational individual action, such 'communicative' reasons can be incorporated as an...

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The Foundations of the Concept of Trust Under Bounded Rationality : Competence, Values Systems, Unselfishness and the Development of Virtue

Rosanas, Josep M.; Cugueró-Escofet, Natàlia - 2014

This paper intends to analyze the foundations of trust in a context of bounded rationality. Building on previous work …, we show how bounded rationality provides a rationale for the concept of trust that goes beyond the common calculative … notion. We show that there are four types of trust and that people assess probabilities (with some fuzziness, in the context …

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